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PleaseNotPoll said:
I think that they need somebody with a strong hand, but that also has the approval of their big names.
They clearly didn't give a **** yesterday and that's an awful position for any manager to be in.
It's a massive job, but it's also a really tough one right now.
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Even though there's no denying the job was too big for Setien, you can't help but feel sorry for him because the players showed up only when they felt like all season - and he had no authority at all to address this

You have to ask who would, though
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
To be honest he really should consider it, because Hiroshima didn't need as major a rebuild in 1945 as Barca need right now
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He would be given money and any team with Messi is salvageable.

Just would be a massive contradiction after he said he would never manage them due to his past with Espanyol and would show he’s no different to any other person in football
 
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KingHotspur said:
He would be given money and any team with Messi is salvageable.

Just would be a massive contradiction after he said he would never manage them due to his past with Espanyol and would show he’s no difference to any other person in football
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silly thing for him to have said but in true Poch fashion his emotions got the better of him and he shot himself in the foot
 
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KingHotspur said:
He would be given money and any team with Messi is salvageable.

Just would be a massive contradiction after he said he would never manage them due to his past with Espanyol and would show he’s no difference to any other person in football
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I thought that they were short of money, they are already swapping Pjanic for Arthurs and are desperate to move on Countinho, Dembele and Griezman to make some money for purchases, and they will take a huge loss on all 3 if selling this summer.

Of course a new manager might try to get all 3 in the team and play to their strengths and get more out of them.
 
KingHotspur said:
He would be given money and any team with Messi is salvageable.

Just would be a massive contradiction after he said he would never manage them due to his past with Espanyol and would show he’s no difference to any other person in football
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Just imagine the amount of money necessary to replace Messi, Suarez, Pique, Alba, Busquets and Vidal while also addressing some of the rickitier parts of the team (i.e. Umtiti, and apparently Semedo as he;s perennially linked with other clubs)

That would require a Guardiolan amount of money to be thrown at the team in a remarkably short space of time, especially in Barca's case because the amounts they've paid for Suarez, Dembele, Coutinho and Griezmann in the past has inflated what clubs expect to be paid for players, for example the kid they paid Braga €31m for in January or the €60m + Arthur they had to send Juve's way for Pjanic recently

And that's the thing with Poch: at Espanyol and Southampton he worked with budgets somewhere between meagre and modest, and at Spurs he did have a more generous budget but he didn't have the pressure of getting an immediate RoI from spending that money that he would at Barca, and that's a very different atmosphere

The best comparison is what's happening in Hollywood these days, as they have effectively killed the mid-budget movie so directors go from working on films with a budget of $10m or less to working on one with a budget of $150m overnight, which isn't an exaggeration as that's exactly what happened to Josh Trank when he went from directing Chronicle to directing Fantastic Four which had at least ten times the budget and infinitely more pressure upon the film and him to succeed
 
Coutinho would improve us but unless he takes a pay cut and Barca are sensible in the price then it is a dead issue.

He is used to the Premier League so settling in will not be an issue.
He has something to prove (VDV) which (imo) is a big plus.

I think we'd build our attacks around him and that'll make him a success...at Barca that has never been the case.
 
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Is that the worst miss of all time? It's got to be up there. Sissoko would've scored that, FFS! <laugh>
 
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